KARACHI: Collectorate of Customs Adjudication-I Deputy Collector Moeen Afzal Ali has issued an Order-in-Original (ONO) against M/s Macca Impex for evading duties/taxes to the tune of Rs 91,123. Moreover, a penalty of Rs 10,000 is also imposed on the importer.
Hearing in this case has been fixed for April 14, 2016, April 28, 2016 and May 10, 2016. However, no one appeared for hearing from importer side and Habibur Rehman and Mehmoob Dawood Vohra, Appraising Officers PCA appeared for hearing and defended the charges leveled in the show cause notice.
The officers went through the record, saying as per SRO 1125(I)/2011, the different slabs of sales tax are chargeable from the different category of importers as prescribed by federal government.
The importer declared his category as the registered manufacturer in the Active Taxpayers List to avoid payment of sales tax and income tax at import stage on import of lamb finished leather, garments, plastic beads for in-house consumption which was found to be incorrect as the manufacturing unit of the importer does not exist at the given address.
